"You can fool all the people some..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
More by Abraham Lincoln
“We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.”
“Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.”
“President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"”
More on Truth
“At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.”
“You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.”
“Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.”
More on Deception
“Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt”
“Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.”
“I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.”